Hi Nichole,
I think I’m becoming illegal.
The other day Kevin and I were scheduled to go target shooting. He has this new military rifle he wanted me to check out and I was hoping to finally get to use my cowboy style lever action rifle. So I go to one of the larger gun shops in the area and explain that I need a few boxes of 9MM rounds and a few boxes of 30-30 rounds. “We’re out” the sales person reports.
“Out of which” I ask stupefied.
“Both, everything, there’s no bullets.”
“Uh, what?” I dumbed.
“They’re all gone, all the bullets are gone.”
“Uh, how come?”
“The election.” he illuminated.
“Uh, what about the election caused all the bullets to go away?”
“Scared, every body got scared when Obama got elected and they bought up all the bullets.”
“Kinda like screaming fire in a crowded movie theater,” I thought to myself.
See, this is what happens when lobbying groups and other self interested parties become a person’s only source of “news.”
“Goddamnit, I knew it! That goddamn liberal African/Arab camel jockey lovin’ bastard is gonna steal all our guns” the cry went out across the land.
Actually I don’t remember Obama making any such threat but maybe I missed something.
So I drove over to the next largest gun shop in the area and posed the same request.
“Good luck finding any ammo of just about any kind around here or anywhere for that matter. Hell we got people coming all the way from the Valley looking for ammo it’s gotten so bad.” the sales person bemoaned.
“Shit” I said as the futility of my quest became evident. “What the fuck’s going on?”
The guy behind the counter then explained that the military has a five year fifty billion round contract basically swamping the ammunition manufacturing capacity of the country. He assured me that this was a readily verifiable fact. “Course then you got the Obama factor on top of that.” He finished.
I explained all this to Kevin as we took what ammo we had and went shooting.
“So, if it’s like the guy says, then when did this historically monstrous military bullet grab commence? Was it under the Bush administration with its resignation to the reality that we would be in at least two protracted wars for the next generation or two? Was it something new under the Obama administration with its resignation that things weren’t going to be as simple as they had appeared from the vantage point of the campaign trail and that we would probably be mired in at least one war for the foreseeable future and we had better be prepared? Plus, you know, there’s North Korea. Or was it a sinister ploy by the Obama administration to bottle up the nation’s ammunition supply in a trumped up military emergency and thereby effectively rendering the debate over the meaning and the validity of the 2nd amendment pointless by not banning guns but by starving them into uselessness?”
“Hard telling.” Kevin shrugged. Kevin is aware for my penchant for paranoia.
Don’t ban tobacco just make it illegal to smoke it anywhere but your yard. I smoke cigars so I can’t leave my yard.
Don t’ prohibit alcohol just set the threshold for legal intoxication so low that to simply say the word beer puts one over the .08 blood alcohol limit. I do way more that just say the word beer so I can’t leave my yard.
“God, with the rate of medical advancements these days we could live to be ninety or a hundred years old. But with the ever increasing weight of the hob nailed boot of cultural oppression pressing down on our freedom loving throats the prospect of living another forty years looses its appeal. Well, guess you better wash up, dinner’s gonna be ready in few minutes.” Kathy said.
Love dad.
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